The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-18
THE STREETS BRILLIANT WITH
LIGHTS AND COLOR
And Packed by a Dense Mass OF
Human Beings From Every
Part Of the Union.
A SERIES OF BEAUTIFUL AND
AR TIsTIC PICTURES,
The Promise OF the M~agniacence to
Come Tomorrow Night and
ON Monday and Tuesday.
IsPRoIAL TO TIE APPEAL.I

IbfkOIAL TO THE APPnAL.l
NRw ORLEANS, La, Feb. 1.-THE
Carnival opens much earlier than usuA
this yaar, aud the celebrations are
more numerous and varied than fol
some time past. The Knights CT Momut
opened it tonight with their process
sion and ball. Saturday the FIambeau
brigade will parade with their new
pyrotschnics. Monday the city as
sumes its brightest and most gala day
appearance, for the mighty Rex, the
King OF the Carnival, enters New Or
leans TO take possession OF the capital.
On that night the bicyclers give their
lantern parade. Then comes Mardi
Grss, with the procession OF Rex and
the Royal Horse, the Order Of the
Moons, the Krewe OF Proteus, and
others. To-day begins the holiday
week, during which New Orleans
abAndons for q while commercial mat
tiers and devotes itself strictly to mer-
riment and fun. This week Is
BRIGHTEST IN ITs HISTORY,
and brings here visitors from all por.
tions OF the country. There is, 80 far,
somewhat fewer people from Chicago
and other Wettern cities than usual,
but the railroad officials say they will
be here next week. Texas sends a
much larger delegation than on former
years but II ia California which ere.
ates the greatest surprise with the
large number Gifts citizens here. The
Southern Racifc road has latterly
become the great winter route across
thastoniinent, and, as a consequence,
tbs city has been full all the winter,
Ghd is fuller now than ever OF Cali.
fornians and OF people from New Eng-
land on route to the Pacific coast via
Florida and New Orleans. The South.
ern visitors to the New Orleans carni-
val generally pour In on the very last
few days, as a week Of carnival ex-
citement, dash and sport Is rather too
much for them.
II KNIGHTS OF MoMUs
turned out tonight ins their sixth an
nual parade. The Knights are all
members oil one OF the leading social
clubs OF New Orleans and great popu.
lar iavorites. They did not appear
last year, but, determined TO make the
present carnival as brilliant as posi-
Bile, the have come forth from their
temporary retirement. Two days ago
Momus gave notice that his process,
sion would appear on Oanal, St.
Charles, Camp aud Bourbon streets,
and along tbs 90 favored thoroughfsrea
were assembled ut an early hour this
evening the quarter of q million reo.
Pile TO which the population OF New
Orleans has been swollen by the in
Aux OF visitors. The usual prepare.
tiona had been made for the process
sion, and the buildings along the
route were decorated with banners
and bunting, and nearly every one
brilliantly illuminatsd in honor OF the
occasion. Particularly was this 80 Of
the club houses, newspaper offices and
public buildings, all of which were In
n blaze Of colored light, making Cana
and the neigbboring streets az bright
rs daylight in their glare Of gas, cleo
tricity and calcium. The chief feature
of attraction was
CLUB HoUhB SQUARE,
on Canal street, where close together
aud the handsome buildings OF tn,
Piskwick, Louisiana, Boston, Com
mercial, Harmony and Chess Clubs
Temporary balconies had been con
Btruoted near tho street decorated, up
upholstered and converted into 81
many handsome opera boxes, in which
sat the lady guests Of the several clubs
in evening dress and ready for tn,
ball, able TO see the procession in thu
street below without being crushed
and elbowed in the dense thfonl
there. In the street the cfu.h was In
tenseIy dissgreeable. Every place
banquette, street, gutter and e~eplanade
even the trees in the center Of tn,
boulevard were filed with people
while the amphitheater with benches
rising tier above tier, were overruI
with visitors. II was about s o'clool
whom the first notice was given Of tn,
approaching procession, by the ref &c
ton OF its hundreds of lamps far GU
Canal street. The starting point, whicl
as usual had been kept q complet
secret, was an old vacant cotton pres
back OF town, at which the carpen
tors and other employees Of the Asso
citation have been engaged for si'
months past preparing the floats an,
tab,eaux. From this stating poin
the procession moved out to Cana
Amid
A BLAIR OF LIGHT AND THE CRASH o
MUSIC
the procession broke upon the Grove
Around the title car which led il an
told the etory Of the parade marche
a troop oil a score or more negroes, a
OF immense height, clad from head I
heel in red and bearing, high in th
air, immense torches, whose rudd
glare lit up the procession, while ca
cnm lights from each corner mad
the treet as bright as day. The tit
car, which led tue gorgeous pagean
represented one OF those ruined ten
pies OF Yucatan, discovered only r
Gently by the great French arcbml
qist, DR.. de Plongeou. It's turret
half in ruins, recalled the castles
medieval Europe, but upon the from
and sides were the carven images
the strange gods Of the Maya, the Al
.itnt race OF Yucatan, and their que
PIC ure hieroglyphics. On the slol
OF this pyramid temple, rising terra
above terrace, pam trees aud 9th
tropical p'anls grew out from amor
the interstices of the stones. In fror
blszoned among the MAYA hieroglyp
les 10 letters of gold, were the wort
"TBE = YTHs OF THE NEw WORLD"
giving the audience the intormatl,
that tie subject which Menus !
teadedto delineste end Illustrate Il
year was the stories and traditions
prehistoric and Indian America. M
mus him eli, the god Of merrimept a